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When I'd go to Israel, I felt like a tourist. My social and professional ties had started to dissolve, and it confused me. I didn't know whether I should stay here in Paris or go back to Israel, or even cut off all my ties with Israel so I could really plant roots here. Or maybe go somewhere else altogether.

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Today, computers help us making the music. It's really a tool.

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When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.

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Being from Israel and a Jew is complex already, but with France, there is a freedom and a mix of culture. I have met musicians from all over the world.

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In France, I found there is a lot of attention to the little details and to the quality of life.

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My big influences are Joni Mitchell, and a lot of classical and Indian music, as well as Nina Simone and the personal blues and jazz of Billie Holiday. Other influences for me include Bjork, Nick Drake, and Sufjan Stevens.

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Songs are a way to express what I have felt. A way to understand what happened to me or to other people.

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I thought I was an old soul, and that I knew life, but then starting the real life, I figured I am completely new.

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English is really free for me; there's no limits to the music and the imagination. And French, it's just I live in Paris, and it's really a poetic language where you can really play with words.

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Hebrew is my first language, so it's really the most personal and the most simple. When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.

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